In The Trashcan
Records GEM053
"Here's to that boy in Mick's company, it's slinky
business doin' the moonman bop..."
Irish trio with only one release, as far as I know. Featuring ex-My Bloody Valentine Colm O'Ciosoig and ex-Stereolab Simon Johns. Nervous instrumental with both guitars and electronics, as if both guys wanted to bring their own sound into this band. Released by Duophonic in 1998.
In 1980 they couldn't be called a punk rock band anymore. Indie pop rock in the new wave of UK bands. This is a terrific instrumental experiment on the B-side of "The history of the world pt1".
Too bad this bizarre instro is only 87 seconds long. The EP is subtitled "Musics from vanished movies". Recorded in 1993 and released on 1998 on this EP on S.H.A.D.O. Records.
Breakbeat filmscore for an imaginary movie about car races. Rare grooves by Alex Gimeno under his Ursula 1000 moniker on this split EP with Stereo De Luxe from Germany, where a certain Frank Popp was thinking about the same sounds and formed The Frank Popp Ensemble a year later in 2000.
We all know this Brian Eno/Brian Ferry band and of course "Love is the drug" is not unknown to you. But who knows the flipside? It's a wonderful space-psychedelic eastern-flavoured instrumental from 1975.
If you buy a Charlatans 45 always flip over the record and you'll discover amazing gems. As is this instrumental B-side of "Weirdo" on Situation Two in 1992. Maybe because of the record label it sounds like a late Bauhaus instro.
Actually it's their "Psychosonic Cindy" played backwards. The normal version appears on their debut album "Pop art" from 1988. Here, the backwards version is the flipside to "Tell that girl to shut up", originally by Holly & The Italians.
Mix Davie Allan's "Blue's theme" with a dance beat and add a foxy female voice, screaming engines and the smell of gasoline and you'll get "Groovy boy" by Stereo De Luxe on this Rennsport split EP from 1999 on Bungalow Records. The other band is Ursula 1000.
Whenever you see a Bricolage release, you should buy it. It's always something you never expected. The bells toll in the first 20 seconds of the song and then the most lo-fi sound ever hits you in the face. Instead of a microphone they used a vacuum cleaner to record this sound and then the tolling bells are back. How low can lo-fi go? To the abyss, baby with this Electrolux sonorisation.
This dub instrumental B-side of their splendid version of "Money" is aptly called "Money B.", released on Virgin in 1979.
Of all the Madness songs I like, I prefer "Baggy trousers". This is the flipside, a 1980 ska-dub instrumental, also on Stiff Records.
Don't shoot me when I say I've never been a Paul Weller fan, except maybe for the early Jam singles. I don't like The Style Council. But I adore this ultra-groovy Hammond instrumental B-side of "My ever changing moods". Recorded in 1984.
A Link Wray instrumental covered by The Ricardos whose rockabilly output was mainly on Raucous Records, like this 1996 release.
I can't help it; I love "Ghostriders in the sky", which was recorded for the first time in 1949 as "Riders in the sky" by Burl Ives. The author Stan Jones got his inspiration from an Arizona storm with the darkest sky ever. And this was also the inspiration for The Doors' "Riders on the Storm", dixit Robbie Krieger. A 1976 Negram release.
Santo & Johnny's early 60s classic instrumental copied immaculately by Brian Setzer and his fellas. They add nothing to the original, but it still remains a great song. A 1992 Pump records release. The only thing I hate about this 45 is the song title of the A-side, "Cry baby", which was chosen because of that John Waters movie of that same name from two years earlier.
I think this is the oldest song in this series of compilations. It's from 1973 and again it's a seldom heard instrumental B-side, too good to be ignored or forgotten.
